Review: Paul

03-May

Review: Paul Director: Greg Mottola Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jane Lynch, Sigourney Weaver What’s it all about? Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play comic book geeks in this light-hearted comedy. Graeme (Pegg) and Clive (Frost) are travelling the US when they encounter a real live alien, Paul (voiced by Rogen). Paul’s being hunted by the authorities and the guys agree to protect him.What’s good?

Review: Paul

Pegg and Frost are always enjoyable to watch and they’re perfectly cast as a couple of English nerds (no fake US accents, thankfully!). If you like silly humour then this has it by the bucketload. Paul’s an irreverent, sarcastic alien more likely to moon people than abduct them – just the kind of character you’d expect Seth Rogen to voice.What’s bad? Considering this was written by Pegg and Frost, you’d hope for funnier. The humour gets repetitive andKristen Wiig’s devout Christian character is way too exaggerated.